Michigan Radio's Tracy Samilton and I were in Havana to cover the connections between Cuba and Michigan and opportunities for the future.

The Michigan Agribusiness Association has been wooing Cuban officials for years now, hoping to sell Michigan-grown produce in a new market.

Cuba also sees the U.S. as a potential new market. But there are still many obstacles standing in the way of increased agricultural trade. One of them is the low productivity on the typical Cuban small farm.

Another story we've been following is that Cuba has long offered free medical training for a select number of Americans who agree to work in high-poverty areas in the U.S. once they graduate. We met one such American, Samantha Moore of Detroit, who is in her final year of medical school.

Then, Michigan State University’s medical school made its first trip to show medical students how Cuba’s health system – deeply stressed as it is – manages to keep the Cuban people as healthy as Americans, who spend much more on health care.

And finally, a Lansing-based firm with decades of experience in renovating historic buildings is helping Cubans construct its first-ever archive laboratory on the site of Ernest Hemingway’s Havana home, which is now a museum.

Click and scroll through the photos above to get a glimpse of our trip, including photos of historic buildings, people, landscapes, cars, and billboards.

And you can listen to, read and follow all of our Pure Cuba stories here.

Internet is being introduced in Cuba (slowly) and while people are rapidly embracing the technology, many still can’t afford it.

For about $2 per hour you can surf the web. It costs more at hotels. At the hotel Havana Libre, Wi-Fi use is $5 per hour.

Just in the past year the Cuban government allowed Wi-Fi zones in Havana, which can be found around a few parks and main business districts. Locals sit on benches or sidewalks as they text, send email and use social media to communicate with friends and family.

In the decades since the Cuban Revolution of 1959, there has been wide gulf – literally and figuratively – between those who stayed in Cuba and those who left.

Ruth Behar was one of the latter. She is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. As an academic and a researcher, she was able to go back and forth to Cuba when so many others could not.

Twenty years ago, Behar edited Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba. It’s seen as a landmark anthology of Cuban voices, including the works of artists, writers and scholars on the island and in the diaspora.

President Barack Obama made history today when he became the first U.S. president to visit the island nation of Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928.

It's seen as an important step toward normalizing relations between the two countries. Many Cuban Americans, like Felix Sharpe-Caballero, are following the developing relationship between the two countries very closely.

Sharpe-Caballero was born in Cuba and moved to Detroit when he was three years old after his father, who worked at the Guantanamo Naval Base, won political asylum and moved his family to the U.S.